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TIL that in the Great Depression in the 1930’s, Canada had zero bank failures compared to over 9,000 failed banks in the USA.

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Dxnv TIL that before a game Larry Bird told Chuck Person that he had Christmas present waiting for him. While Person was on the bench Bird shot a three pointer right in front of him. Immediately after releasing the ball, Bird said to Person, “Merry f*%#ing Christmas!”, and then the shot went in.
69Be7 TIL there is a growing market for pharmaceutical drugs made in space. The lack of gravity can improve the efficiency of certain chemical processes making space drugs commercially promising.
Ajko TIL For the Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy theory to be true, over 400,000 people would need to be part of the secret.
6EPMZ TIL of William James Sidis, a child prodigy who able to read the New York Times by the age of two, got into Harvard aged 12, and had an IQ of 250-300. He lived his adult live in relative seclusion and died (a virgin) of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 46.
KYD0G TIL laboratories practiced mouth pipetting when accessioning specimens “until the 1970s, when cheap mechanical pipettes became available.”